Re: [odf-adoption] XML 2007

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

> If we talking "demo"
here, don't forget the case of MS Office + plug-in ...
> may be important for market share, but also as an eye-opener to a
> larger audience outside the open source/open standards arena:

That's a good point.  Using the
Sun Plugin would give a simply way to include interop with MS Office.  


We could also take the document and
gmail it to someone and show it in Google Docs.

I'd like to fit in more intelligent
processing of documents.  I think that is the real advantage of open
standards like ODF.  In the old world, documents were opaque and could
only be processed easily on Windows clients that had Office installed.
 With ODF,anyone with zip code an an XML parser can read/write/modify
ODF.  That is were things get interesting.  Jean-Marie suggested
business intelligence apps like BIRT or Jasper.  I have not used either
of these.  Do they support ODF today?

-Rob
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peter.vandenabeele.be@gmail.com wrote on 09/27/2007
09:25:37 AM:

> 
> 
>   "Oh, does this actually work in my accustomed Microsoft
Word too?
>    I thought this ODF thing was only relevant for open source
geeks."
> 
> (I attend "geekdinners" so not too shy to use that word
on myself and others)
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Peter